There is a huge gap between what students want for their future and what their schools are offering.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
When I see people with an interesting gap year, if they can explain it, if they can justify it, if they can show what they've learnt from it, it's sometimes more profitable or more intelligent than having been through a traditional, continuous race from high school to the end of university.
I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators.
Studies have identified a significant 'skills gap' between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today's global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.
We are the transition from one education to the other.
I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.
The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
The biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing great work and even dissuade some talented Americans from entering the profession. This needs to change.
Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.
I believe that the future is determined by the great public universities. They educate 80 percent of the students and make the American Dream available.
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